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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1922
Page
8
A Chicago advertising offer invites women and girls to submit four line rhymes using only words from the Dr Price label or inside can slips. Top prizes total 300 dollars with 59 additional five dollar awards. entries due by May 1, 1922 to Price Baking Powder Factory, 1009 Independence Blvd, Chicago.
Harold was playing football when he heard his father calling. The boys urged him to stay and finish the game, but he replied Can't stop, kids, when he talks in that voice.
An old advertisement extols Cuticura Talcum as part of the Cuticura Trio for face skin and baby care. It claims the powder and perfume render other scents unnecessary and suggests the brand’s ubiquity. A stray line notes a boy’s view of a health board as a chance to eat when hungry.
The piece traces how Easter lilies reach U S florists through Bermuda losses and a Formosa to Yokohama supply chain. It notes disease pressures, Japanese government loans, and three to four year bulb growth, with nightly floristry hustle for Easter bloom and care tips for home display.
A compact reflection on historic European towns that thrived as river ports before ocean routes dominated. It notes Seville Pisa and Florence as examples, then explains how the Turks cutting Indian trade routes and advances in ship design shifted prominence to new coastal cities, leaving others dead or revived under new conditions.
Archaeologists note a remaining fragment of ancient Antioch within Antakya, the modern city of about 26,000 people. The blurring line between antiquity and modern life highlights ongoing urban growth and preservation concerns.
The article discusses two Antiochs linked to St Paul the larger Antioch near the Mediterranean and the smaller Antioch of Misia in Wisidia near Coinsse and 135tra. It notes only ruins remain at Misia today and distinguishes Caesarea of Misia from the coastal Caesarea near Jerusalem, once the political capital of Palestine.
A column of practical house hints covers refreshing rancid fats with soda water rinses, drying towels, and freshening nuts. Tips include repairing brooms, using ginger in doughnuts to curb fat and indigestion, grinding bacon for even flavor, turning stale bread into cereal, crochet to mend runs, auto tire tubes as elastic, and methods to fix curdled mayonnaise with extra egg. Also notes heating lemons to extract juice and emergency hair net mend with a head hair threaded through a needle.
An eclectic boilerplate passage on happiness contrasts self generated contentment with the futility of chasing luck, followed by a series of recipe fragments. It details pea soup with milk and butter, a peanut fondue, pineapple pie, peanut dumplings, and graham flour bread, all described in imperfect OCR style with odd spellings and measurement quirks.
Mrs. Perkins reads the paper and learns that Mrs. Smith, who had just engaged the old cook Mary Casey, was struck and killed by a motorcar on her way home from the employment office. Mr. Perkins notes she had a narrow escape from Mary.
A vintage ad touts California Fig Syrup as a cure for constipation and tummy troubles in children. It boasts a fruity taste and a single teaspoonful to cleanse the liver and bowels, claiming it can prevent illness tomorrow. Millions of mothers keep it on hand and are urged to ask druggists for genuine California Fig Syrup with age directions printed on the bottle.
Otto Kahn, a New York financier, objects to the modern girl’s bathing attire at Coronado. He remarks that a nearby girl in a black silk maillot lacks a rapt look, criticizing the fashion of one piece suits, skirts, and stockings as seen on the beach.
Advertisement style note on Dr Kilmer Swamp Root claims it aids kidneys liver and bladder and is a physician prescription strengthening medicine. It urges testing with a sample bottle for ten cents and asks readers to mention the paper. The piece ends with a light editorial aside about literature and propositions.
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